For many Disney World visitors, Disney Vacation Club (DVC) has been a great option for those who make the Disney Parks (or cruises) their destination of choice year after year.

DVC allows members to purchase an allotted number of points to use toward booking their vacations at their “Home Resort,” a resort of choice from the list of hotels with DVC-specific rooms and villas. You can use the points from each year to book your stay, and you can even put unused points from the previous year toward a vacation the next year. You can also exchange your points for stays at other Disney resorts, and even use them to book Disney Cruises. Basically, it’s Disney’s timeshare system. If your points and membership go unused, you’ll have the option to sell them. Recently, quite a few of our readers have sold their DVC points and/or membership, and we asked them to share with us why they made that decision. Let’s talk about it!

A lot of the reasons behind selling membership were fairly common among our readers’ answers. This post will highlight the top three reasons why selling a membership might be the best decision — in case you’re debating purchasing a membership, or if you already have a membership and are debating selling it. Let’s go!

I Couldn’t Book Where Or When I Wanted — Even At My Home Resort.

Like we mentioned earlier, you can choose a Home Resort from a list of DVC hotels, where you would in theory be given priority over someone without a DVC membership. However, several of our readers found that they weren’t able to book where or when they wanted with their points — even at their home resort.

Part of the appeal of DVC is to always have your “vacation home” to return to, so it can be frustrating when your membership doesn’t seem to give you any sort of advantage when it comes to booking your stay. This was the most popular answer as to why people sold their memberships. They were paying extra every year when they had the same likelihood of scoring the room they wanted without the costly membership.

I loved it so much that I just moved to Disney World.

Another super popular answer was that several of our readers loved being at Disney World so much that they simply bought property that was all their’s and can now visit Disney World whenever they want!

Of course, moving to Disney World permanently and buying property in the Orlando area kind of renders a DVC membership useless. We suppose that this is a more positive reason to sell a membership!

I Wanted to Swap Home Resorts

Sometimes, you just have a change of heart! A lot of our readers signed a contract for a certain home resort, and then found that they were better suited elsewhere. While you can totally have more than one active contract at a time, many folks find it more affordable to simply sell their current contract to purchase a contract at another Home Resort.

Some folks said they sold their previous contract and used the money toward a larger contract at a more desirable location based on their own vacation preferences.

Well, there you have it! If you’re thinking of purchasing a DVC contract, let it be relieving to know that for the most part, folks didn’t sell their contract for a negative reason — aside from the folks stating that they couldn’t book where and when they wanted. It’s true, though, that some Home Resorts are much more popular than others, especially ones like Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort, Animal Kingdom Lodge, and Contemporary Resort. It seems that there are other resorts that folks have better luck at booking.

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